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audrooku|m
Hi, would it be possible to have this site crawled? <
sphere.bc.ca/oldsite/index.html>
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audrooku|m
they are going out of business, their site has lots of photos and datasheets
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fireonlive
" The site will be slimmed down in the coming weeks consisting of primarily the Stuff Page and a main announcement page." :(
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fireonlive
I guess
sphere.bc.ca would cover oldsite as well
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JAA
audrooku|m: I've started an ArchiveBot job for the entire domain.
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h2ibot
JustAnotherArchivist edited Template:Datetime (+27, <includeonly>):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50677&oldid=50676
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JAA
fireonlive: Template looks good, thanks!
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JAA
Just added some magic to prevent its default expansion on the template page.
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JAA
Also yes, MediaWiki syntax is special.
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fireonlive
^_^
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fireonlive
thanks :)
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JAA
Now to edit all existing pages. lol
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h2ibot
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h2ibot
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h2ibot
Skreutzer edited Category talk:Video hosting (+2378):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50680&oldid=38490
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fireonlive
haha yes
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h2ibot
Myusernameisanything edited URLTeam (+196, /* Alive */ url.zip):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50681&oldid=50585
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JAA
I've done some of that before to update all the IRC channel references when we moved from EFnet to here. A lot of fun...
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fireonlive
ah right! >_<
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JAA
At least that was somewhat automatable. Dates are hell.
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fireonlive
indeed. i imagine a slow burn approach is better
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fireonlive
use going forward, high traffic pages/as we see them
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JAA
Actually, it was when I changed the Template:IRC to default to hackint when everything needed updating, not on migration itself.
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fireonlive
ohh
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
looks like a party!
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JAA
:-)
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JAA
Most of it was done with some fun scripts.
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JAA
A bit of tmux magic to cycle through pages and edit them with nano since patterns weren't reliable enough.
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JAA
And then a script to submit all the edits.
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DigitalDragons
Are all the archivebot/ pages on the wiki still used?
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fireonlive
nice ^_^
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JAA
DigitalDragons: No, the bot behind that has been dead for years by now. I have a partial replacement (will be a separate website but be able to process lists from wiki pages), but it got stalled and I haven't worked on it in some time now.
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JAA
Editing the .../list pages is fine though; those will eventually be used for that (with changes in formatting). The non-/list pages will just be discarded at that time.
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fireonlive
there is a bunch of cruft other places as well but that tends to happen
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fireonlive
or stuff that didnt pan out/probably isnt in scope
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
:3
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JAA
:-)
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DigitalDragons
that's how I do my editing
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DigitalDragons
just spamming random until I find a problem
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JAA
lol
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fireonlive
:P
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JAA
You can do some fun maths to calculate how many times you need to hit Special:Random until you've seen every page on the wiki.
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fireonlive
wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Eroshare < "formerly #nofap (on EFnet)" hahahaha
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DigitalDragons
Who needs to do the math when someone did all the hard work for us?
wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Collecting_items_randomly
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JAA
> Don't ask me to prove this mathematically.
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JAA
Pfff
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
lol @ don't ask
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
665 dead/red links to ArXiv and IBM for example
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JAA
Almost all of those come from the navbox template.
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JAA
I never liked that one very much.
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fireonlive
ah yes just saw that
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fireonlive
yeah, not a huge fan of the navbox
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fireonlive
is 'Emijrp' still around?
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fireonlive
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JAA
No, hasn't been around in a couple years now. They ran the ArchiveBot/* bot.
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fireonlive
ahh
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fireonlive
oops
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fireonlive
👀
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h2ibot
FireonLive edited Template:Navigation box (-17078, not maintained, lots of 'red links', hard to…):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50682&oldid=50099
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fireonlive
your honour that was a misclick if anyone asks
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JAA
I'd like to see us use categories more.
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fireonlive
indeed
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fireonlive
projects could be a link to various categories .... or can we include stuff inside categories somehow idk
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JAA
I guess the navbox was 'fine' in the early days, but now it's just an opinionated mess because it'd get way too large if everything was included there.
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fireonlive
it's currently very very unmaintained
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fireonlive
inside categories on the page itself (or pull from the infoboxes we use)
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JAA
So there's some editorial choice of which targets 'deserve' to be in the navbox.
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fireonlive
ah yes
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fireonlive
last thing we need is more room for infighting lol
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JAA
For categories, we just put [[Category:X]] at the bottom of a wiki page, and it gets added to that category.
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fireonlive
'why X over Y!'
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JAA
Creating an actual category page isn't strictly necessary, but adding a little description there isn't necessarily a bad idea.
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fireonlive
ah yes like the Deleteme category :3
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
but yeah agreed there
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fireonlive
when someone .. updates the mediawiki .. wouldn't mind /index.php/ being replaced while they're there :p
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JAA
Does a category for user-generated content make sense? Most archival targets with a wiki page have UGC anyway.
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JAA
Not sure we can get rid of it, but replacing it with /wiki/ or something would be good, yeah.
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fireonlive
ye /wiki/ would work
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fireonlive
on UGC i think that's most of our sites
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fireonlive
if we really wanted to track that we could track the inverse
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h2ibot
JustAnotherArchivist edited Gfycat (+27, Categorise):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50683&oldid=50668
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fireonlive
but even something like $newsWebsite has comment sections i suppos
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fireonlive
suppose*
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fireonlive
increasingly less common, but yeah
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
not sure oh ok
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fireonlive
oops
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fireonlive
the latter is just a subset of Categories - those w/o a 'page' (any text on them explaining the category)
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fireonlive
TIL :3
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JAA
Yep
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JAA
The categories exist, the category pages list the pages in that category, just the explainer is missing and the category link is red.
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fireonlive
i've installed MediaWiki once or twice way back when but didn't get too involved
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fireonlive
ah
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
i wouldn't necessarily advise visiting that particular sub-board or whatever the proper term is lol
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JAA
Yeah, deaths/disestablishments was generated from Wiki(Something) by a bot. Don't remember whether it was Wikipedia or Wikidata.
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JAA
Also by emijrp, also no longer operational.
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audrooku|m
JAA: thank you very much
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audrooku|m
(re: adding sphere to AB)
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fireonlive
ah ye
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fireonlive
an 'Obsolete' namespace was proposed to move/make things read-only, but idk if some things should just be pruned or what
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h2ibot
FireonLive edited 2018-10-13 (+25, categorize):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50684&oldid=31435
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h2ibot
FireonLive edited Current Projects (+161, datetime-ify):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50685&oldid=50670
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fireonlive
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h2ibot
FireonLive edited In The Media (+1124, datetime-ify; remove navigation box template):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50686&oldid=50297
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fireonlive
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fireonlive
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thuban
iirc there was some question of whether the geocities torrent is actually functional--someone came in here a while back having extended trouble with it
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fireonlive
ahh
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fireonlive
apparently there's a patched and non-patched version
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fireonlive
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thuban
it was the patched one that was problematic
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fireonlive
ahh ok
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fireonlive
wonder if that collection has it all..it appears to be similar in size: 657.4GB
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thuban
hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-ot/20220307 i'm not sure whether there was actually a problem or this guy was just really confused
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fireonlive
"$ tar xf > /h..." hm yeah
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fireonlive
looks like i missed that by over two months lucky me :D
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thuban
oh, i guess everything was fine and someone helped him work it out eventually
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fireonlive
huh yeah
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fireonlive
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h2ibot
JAABot edited Main Page/In The Media (+130):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50687&oldid=50299
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flashfire42
Ok I queued all the telegram channels from the wiki is it time to do youtube videos?
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fireonlive
if they fall within scope ™
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erkinalp
any update on IA uploads?
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erkinalp
still the same bottleneck?
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h2ibot
Yts98 edited PIXNET (+561, Update site structure):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50688&oldid=50628
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h2ibot
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Carnildo
I was there watching as MediaWiki syntax was created. It wasn't so much "designed" as "evolved".
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Carnildo
A fair chunk of it comes from the developers going "Oh crap, the users have figured out how to use template inclusion to build a programming language, and it's killing the servers."
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pabs
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vokunal|m
Malwarebytes is both nice to have, and terrible to have. For a solid few years, I actually downloaded it, installed it, scanned what I was going to scan, and then un-installed it, every time I downloaded something remotely sketchy. All due to its persistent pop up ads for buying it. It's quieted down now, and I'm not sure why, but I haven't seen a notification from it in a long time
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ShakespeareFan00
Hi.
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imer
Hi!
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ShakespeareFan00
Are there any people here that speak Russian ?
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imer
Might have to stick around for a while for that one, I wouldn't know anyone off the top of my head, but that means nothing :)
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imer
Might help to add why you're asking though
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ShakespeareFan00
It was noted on the Wikimedia Discord that Russia had recently announced it was going to start blocking more types of site including those with LGBT related content.
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ShakespeareFan00
I don't speak, read or write Russian, but figured that someone that did may wish to archive Russian language LGBT information before it gets taken down by the regime ?
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ShakespeareFan00
As I don't read, write or speak Russian myself, it would need an archivist with the requisite language skills.
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ShakespeareFan00
Anyway that was why I asking :)
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» ShakespeareFan00 out
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h2ibot
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h2ibot
Exorcism created ClipTube (+305, Created page with "{{Infobox project | image =…):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?title=ClipTube
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fireonlive
Carnildo: ahhh that makes sense… and lmao xD
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Barto
so nitter.net and nitter.cz seem to cause some problems archiving some accounts. Any other instance that we can use? I wanna do 36 accounts :-|
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bladem
generate a bunch of guest tokens and spin up your own instance probably; I think nitter.net is IP banning people for scraping now
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Barto
eh
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Barto
that would be the dream instance for AB, but as a quickfix this will not do it, thanks anyway :)
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h2ibot
JustAnotherArchivist edited We-TeVe (+581, Infobox, archival, datetimeify):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50692&oldid=50652
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h2ibot
JacksonChen666 edited URLTeam/Dead (+605, add u.fail and related domains as dead (moved…):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50693&oldid=49996
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h2ibot
JacksonChen666 edited URLTeam (-991, delete u.fail from alive (moved to dead subpage)):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50694&oldid=50681
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h2ibot
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h2ibot
TheTechRobo edited RootsWeb (-35, /* Mailing Lists */ Use [[Template:Job]]):
wiki.archiveteam.org/?diff=50696&oldid=49474
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guest_5981
Update for Kongregate - they're removing their forums on September 6, making content inaccessible. Hopefully they're archived.
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JAA
guest_5981: Huh, is there an announcement about this somewhere?
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guest_5981
It shows when I opened a random game.